By John Newell-Price, MD, PhD, President, Endocrine Society
I’ve been a proud member of the Endocrine Society for more than two decades. Each year as October comes around, I renew my membership, and I really encourage you to do so too.
If you haven’t already done so, now is the perfect time to renew for 2025. Maintaining your membership allows you to continue tapping into the wealth of benefits our Society provides. Some of the big ones can be seen in the recent, and upcoming, flurry of educational activities.
Discounts on Meetings and Conferences
Membership allows you to save big on meetings!
Take, for example, registration to ENDO 2025, from July 12 to 15 in San Francisco, Calif. Your yearly membership dues more than offset the price of attending this seminal meeting as a nonmember.
After the annual ENDO conference, our next two largest meetings are Endocrinology Board Review (EBR) and Clinical Endocrinology Update (CEU). EBR has helped thousands of rising endocrinologists to pass their board exams over the years, while CEU provides updates to working clinicians on how to treat endocrine conditions using the latest expert guidelines in hormone care.
Both EBR and CEU — which took place in September — provided members with registration discounts of up to several hundred dollars off the nonmember attendance price. Renewing for 2025 allows you to capture the savings on these meetings next year.
Members also can save hundreds of dollars on two upcoming meetings: the 1st International Conference on Steroid Hormones and Receptors (SHR 2024), October 16-18 in Albuquerque, N.M., and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Virtual Summit, November 8-9.
Member-Only Events
But the advantages of renewing your membership go far beyond simply cost savings. Membership unlocks multiple member-only benefits that can enhance your career and professional network.
One of my favorites is the Society’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which allow you to engage with members who share your endocrine interests.
Much of the SIG engagement takes place on EndoForum, an online platform where you can share clinical and scientific cases and research, coordinate study groups, and simply connect with peers and experts, among other things.
Currently, the Society offers eight SIGs covering a wide range of clinical and research interests:
- Adrenal and Pituitary SIG;
- Bone & Mineral SIG;
- Early Career SIG;
- Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals SIG;
- Endocrine Cancers SIG;
- Entrepreneurship SIG;
- Oncoendocrinology SIG;
- Transgender Research and Medicine SIG.
The Society is preparing to launch SIGs in new topic areas by the end of 2024, with more to follow.
Celebrating Excellence
Remaining a Society member also is the best way to stand out in our field. Nowhere is this more evident than in our prestigious Laureate Awards. The Society recently announced 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of the 2025 Laureate class.
The highest honor – the Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award – was awarded this year to Daniel Drucker, MD, who has made significant contributions to the field of glucagon-like peptide (GLP) biology, leading to the development of GLP-agonists for the treatment diabetes mellitus, obesity and short bowel syndrome.
Dr. Drucker and the other 2025 Laureate winners will be recognized at ENDO 2025. We look forward to celebrating their achievements with our community.
Refer a Friend and Sign up for Auto-renewal
Like many things in life, renewing your membership is more fun when others join you. The Society’s Refer a Friend program allows you to receive a 10% discount on your renewal if two to three friends join, and up to 30% if eight or more join. And if keeping track of renewal deadlines is too much effort in our busy lives — which I totally understand — the Society has an excellent option. Members can enroll in the Society’s auto-renewal program.
Contributing as a Member – A Personal Journey
While I have been a member for more than 20 years, my affiliation with the Society goes back further. I remember attending my first ENDO in 1995 as a junior fellow and giving my first oral presentation. I was nervous, but quickly put at ease by the support and interest that I received from the Society’s renowned senior members.
I knew right then that this would be my professional home. As a member, I’ve been fortunate to have been able to be involved in some the many opportunities the Society has offered to help further our field and the organization itself including serving on writing groups to develop clinical practice guidelines, on JCEM’s editorial board, on governance taskforces, as chair of ENDO’s annual meeting steering committee, on the Board of Directors, and now as your President.
While contributing to the Society I too have benefitted greatly. The experience of working with amazingly talented colleagues and staff has been so rewarding, and back at my own institution this has made me a far better endocrinologist, researcher, teacher, and administrator.
I plan to stay a member for years and years to come. I hope you will join me!
If you have membership questions, please feel free to reach out to the Society’s friendly staff at [email protected] or +1 (202) 971-3646 Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST).
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